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STORAGE-WAREHOUSE AND METHOD OF STORING MATERIALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,850, dated November8, 1887.

Application filed August 27, 1887. Serial No. 248,042.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP GENGEMBRE HUBERT, of the city and county ofNew York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Storage-Warethe object of my invention is to accomplishthese objects by providing for the complete combustion of a limitedquantity of furniture or combustible materials when stored in abuilding, and in which fire may occur, without endangering otherfurniture or combustible materials which may be stored in the samebuilding, but in separate compartment-s.

In carrying out my invention I provide a storage-warehouse having itswalls constructed to form series of flues,and having its floors orstories divided by fire-proof partitions constructed in a manner to formrooms or large cells, each of which communicates by an opening with oneof the said flues, and I combine therewith metal or fire-proof cars orboxes, each of a size to enteraroomor cell, and each having a throat oropening which, when the car or box is in its room or cell, is incommunication with an opening to a flue. Ihe furniture or othercombustible material is stored in specific quantitiesin these cars orboxes, and if fire occur in the contents of any car or box it willfollow that, inasmuch as such car or box is in communication with. aflue or chimney, the contents thereof will be burned, as in a stove, butslowly, owing to the lack of proper draft to the car or box, while thecon tents of ,cars or boxes which are in adjoining rooms or cells willremain uninjured. It will therefore be seen that in a storage-warehouseconstructed as above described and provided with the metal cars or boxesa method of storing furniture and other combustible materials will becarried out, which consists in packing the articles or materials withina closed metal or fireproof car or box, and then maintaining the car orbox in constant communication with a flue or chimney, and such methodalso constitutes a part of my invention.

(No model.)

I In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical sectionwhich represents, arbitrarily, several stories of a storage-warehouseembodying my invention an a car or closed box which is in place in oneof the cells or compartments; and Fig. 2represents a horizontal sectionand plan of a portion of the warehouse, one of the cars or boxes alsobeing in place. 1

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in'bothfigures.

A designates the upright opposite walls of the warehouse, and A theother walls thereof.

:the building.

B designates the floors of the warehouse, which I have shown in anarbitrary manner, but which will usually be of any fireproofconstruction-as, for example, that consisting of iron beams and brickarches between them, and which is well known. These floors may be aboutseven feet high, (more or less, as may be found desirable, and thestories between the floors are divided by vertical partitions G,

which are also constructed in a fire-proof manner and which form betweenthem small rooms or large cells D. I have shown in the present exampleof my invention a series of such cells or rooms D on each side of thewarehouse, with a space between snfficiently wide to constitute acentralhall, and each cell or compartment communicates by an opening, d, with aflue, B.

With the cells or compartments of the warehouse I combine metal orfire-proof boxes or cars E, which are of a size to easily enter thecells or compartments, and which are mounted upon wheels 6, so as to runupon tracks a in the cells or compartments. resented tracks a, extendinglongitudinally of the building,and on which may run a wheeled platform,F, for the support of the cars or boxes E. It will be observed that eachcar or box E is constructed with a door, e,through which it may befilled, and after it is so filled the door may be closed and secured andthe I have also repjoining cells or compartments, both above,

car or box E run into its cell or compartment 1 D, and when in its cellor compartment 1) a throat, c, with which the car isprovided,communicates through an opening, d,with one of the flues B.

Ihave only shown in the drawings one car or box E as inserted in itscompartment D; but it will be understood that each of the other cells orcompartments is provided with a corresponding car or box. After a car orbox E is filled with furniture or other combustible material and placedin its cell or compartment D, it is maintainedin constantconimunicationthrough its throat c with the due B,and in case fire occur in thecontents of the car or box its contents will be burned, as in a stove,and slowly, inasmuch as there is no proper provision for the entrance ofair to the car or box, while the contents of the cars or boxes inadbelow, and at the sides of the one containing the burning material,will be uninjured.

In transferring the furniture of residences to a storagewarehouse thecars or boxes E may be taken to the residences upon suitable trucks, andafter being filled may be locked up, and when the packed car or boxreaches the storehouse it may be raised by an elevator to the desiredstory and placed upon a platform car or truck, F, and moved lengthwiseofthe building, and when the desired cell or compartment D is reachedthe car or box E may be trans ferred thereto and placed in communicationwith the flue B.

The partitionsG may be constructed of fireproof blocks, brick walls, orany other suitable material, to render them substantially fireproof.

Although,to enable my invention tobefnlly understood, l have abovedescribed that the cars or boxes E may be placed upon suitable trucksand taken to the residence, where they are loaded with furniture, andafter they arrive at the warehouse may be removed bodily from the trucksand placed in the cells or compartments, I have not here attempted toclaim such a novel construction of a furniture-van, as the same formsthe subject matter of my application, Serial No. 252,812, filed October19, 1887.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

l. A storage-warehouse having its walls constrncted to form series offines, and having its floors or stories divided by fireproof partitionsto form rooms or large cells, each of which communicates by an openingwith a flue, in combination with metal or fireproof cars or boxes, eachof asize to enter a room or cell, and each having a throat or openingwhich,when the car or box is in its room or cell, is in communicationwith the opening to a due, substantially as herein described.

2. The method of storing furniture and other combustible materials,consisting in packing the articles or materials within a closed metal orfire-proof car or box, and then maintaining the car or box in constantcommunication with a flue or chimney, substantially as herein described.

P. G. HUBERT.

Witnesses:

O. HALL, FREDK. HAYNES.

